Tintina Trench
The Tintina Trench is a large valley extending through Yukon, Canada. It is the northern extension of the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench in British Columbia and it has its origin from the Tintina Fault.[1]
Much of the northern valley serves as the path through which flows the Pelly River, a tributary of the Yukon River.
The southern Tintina Trench is drained by the Liard River which first flows south-eastward, then eastward and finally merges into the Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson, NWT where the combined waters turn back north toward for the Mackenzie's long flow to the Arctic Ocean.
The Tintina Trench is largely a Yukon feature but does extend into Alaska.
For the Yukon traveler information on the Tintina Trench can be accessed at: http://www.travelyukon.com/maps
A summer 2007 article is previewed on the web courtesy of Canadian Geographic magazine: Fault Zone: A massive geological scar slicing diagonally across the Yukon...
Communities and features of the Trench include the following:
- Lower Post, BC on the Liard Plain, see 'last outpost of civilization' by George Mercer Dawson.
- Watson Lake, Yukon on the Liard Plain, but a waypoint for travel up the Tintina
- Ross River, Yukon
- Faro, Yukon
- Stewart Crossing, Yukon
- Dawson City, Yukon lying just west of and outside the actual Tintina Trench
- Forty Mile, Yukon
- Eagle, Alaska
- Robert Campbell Highway